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alhoon

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  1. But... shaping the living is as illegal as it gets! QUESTION: I am level 30 in GF5. I just got permission to go to Alwan's place (wander a bit there and all). I still cannot defeat an Unbound (and I have a quest to do it) because, while I am uber-high level... I still haven't got -any- rank 3 creations! And I also have kinda low spells. Is that normal? I had wingbolts and Kyshaak by this time in GF4. Have I missed something? I avoid cannisters like the plague BTW to avoid the cannister-madness. I have used 2-3 or so and I plan to use cannisters if they give me gazers, drayks and drakons. I have a few places I didn't go in Astoria's area, cause I want to progress the story, get rid of Rawal's tool and of course... do as much as possible AFTER I get Drayks to level them up. EDIT: The fort I talked about, in Alwan's area, called Defiance... it's under attack in the east. And everyone sits calmly inside with people commenting "send more creations" while ... stuff fights at the east wall.
  2. Aren't infiltrators supposed to be acting alone, and be bad in shaping? I play a shaper and I never got over 5 creations.
  3. I don't feel that the enslavement is being pushed to the periphery in GF4 and GF5. I haven't played the other games but it certainly shocked me to find out the shapers MADE a race destined to be slaves. The serviles rising up is one of the main pillars of the rebellion. In GF5 I have often questions\quests about "how you feel about the Serviles?" and I find out that being decent gives Rebel reputation, so I may "lie" on occasion to get shaper rep. (And I think I have to kill some serviles for the crime of not wanting to be slaves just for the better training shapers offer. I know, I'm a hypocrite ) Perhaps you feel it's pushed in the periphery cause you had exposure to the issue on other games so it didn't feel fresh? The -MAIN- reason I side with rebels is... the serviles. I don't mind that much if a guild of mages becomes over-protective of their secrets and powers. Sure, they need to chill but a devastating war is not the answer. But ... a sentient race DESTINED to be a slave race? killing Drayks and Drakons just because they are "inconvenient"? That's kinda too much and worthy of war.
  4. Personally I believe shaping should be more controlled than the rebels do and that the shapers should really, really chill about those weird controls. I am also against enslaving Serviles.
  5. Yeah, and we all saw where that led them! And in their defense, they barred the whole island around it. Knowing what happened and making a geneforge in a place where creations come and go with a "Shapers only, don't enter" warning as if rogue creations would care is both against everything shapers stand for and... irresponsible. Also, I did a quest more for Rawal and now...he wants me to bring him a book on how to make cannisters! Because he claims that "at some point it will be allowed and I want a headstart!" (Yeah, right. Cause we will believe a powercrazed opportunist wizard with a geneforge on his basement. I am amnesiac buddy, not a fool)
  6. Thanks! As for Shapers... lifecrafters are shapers too but they don't have the title. I was meaning shaper as per member of a secretive, paranoid organization under threat by the very existance of the geneforge. More or less, Rawal is an insult to nearly everything shapers stand for but everyone is angry with Astoria.
  7. Hmmm... so, Councilor Astoria lets rogue creations (serviles) hang around in her province. That was weird. Not to mention that it's a thiiiinly kept secret that rebels abound on those two places. I wonder how the rebel settlements cope with the unbound. They are close to them and they don't seem to have enough defences to fend one off, without much damage.
  8. I did ... most of the rebel quests and some shaper ones. At one point, the shapers stopped giving me quests. Yet, while I was at 1st loyalty reward for rebels at that point. But I haven't thought about the "doing both mechanichs and battle path" way to be sincere. Once I was through an area, I kinda found it boring to go back and disarm mines for 9xp each. Thinking of it, I didn't do stuff worth probably about 4-5K exp, so I would have ended at about 45 lvl.
  9. 42 With 7 Creations? I was like 40-41 with 3 creations and I thought I did most... I even farmed XP from the infinite-respawn areas. Thanks, I'll keep it on mind
  10. Only for the creations? But I get less XP from kills and quests with many creations than with a few. Or the "you get 27 XP" thing is a bug?
  11. Yeap, I did that too. I always left about 50-70 essence after creations. So, when I reached like 600 essence, I had 3 costly creations. Drakon, Gazer, Kyshaak.
  12. Yes, but at least in GF4 (The only one I've played to the end) there's an XP penalty for having too many creations. I didn't put a single dot to my Drakon or Kashyyk or something. But I see what you said. My creations had +8 str, +6 dex from my equipment or something. However, in GF5, I am literally swimming in essence and I don't have high level creations yet, just got Vlish and Clawbugs and I have about 300 essence. I have 3 creations at about 60-70 essence cost each so I buffed my cryora (I don't like roamers)
  13. Actually, I found them doing ok against mental attacks. Anyway, I wasn't suggesting a Cryora to be as good as a cryodrak. But a Cryora at 35 lvl that costs 100 essence shouldn't be THAT much worse than a cryodrayk that it makes keeping the Cryora a sentimentality choice. A Kyshaak could pack about as much damage to an enemy with strong magic resistance as my cryora with 0 damage resisted. And had 2-3 times the health. That's when I let my trusty Cryora go, and it was a painful choice. I felt... like a shaper! Using my creations as tools and then disposing them. If at least when you absorbed them, there was not the death animation and that pool of blood to remind you what you did... it would be better.
  14. Thank you, very much appreciated! Does it work with GF3?
  15. I would like: - Better benefits for keeping a creation around. A 30 level Cryora costing 100 essense is worse (at least in GF4) from a lvl 30 Drayk costing 80 essense. And you can fairly easily make lvl 30 Drayks as a shaper-heavy char. They start at 24... IIRC - I want to know how my after creations essense maximum is! - NPCs that sticked around and had a bit of dialogue, options or perhaps "loyalty quest". - GF5 interface - More "filler" graphics. I.e. Not every shaper having the same blue robe, every agent the same curly short black hair etc. More (and more varied) people walking around in cities. - Earlier warnings about cannistrers turning you crazy. I had downed like 4 before I learned to my amazement that the more you get, the greater the strain. - BATHROOMS. - Even MORE creations.
  16. Hi all! I am new here and also fairly new in the awesome series (Finished GF4, just left the mountains in GF5). I loved, loved, loved GF4. Haven't played the previous ones (except for 2 mins in GF3). I hate to admit, that while I had no problem with graphics and mechanics in GF4 and I could manage GF3 from what I've seen, I don't think I would be able to enjoy GF1 and GF2 because of the kinda weird mechanics and screen. Anyway, here are a few things I want to talk about GF5. There will be some spoilers from me, but please no spoilers from responders There is a mix of questions and of things I want to say to get off my chest. I play a Shaper (class), slightly pro-rebel in GF5. Although I see stuff I don't like by the rebels. Staff I sacrificed my char to avoid in GF4 to be sincere. Anyway, the shaper tyranny I am against. But not at any cost... Questions and comments: 1. Leveling. Is leveling insanely faster in GF5 than in GF4 or I broke something? I finished the demo at lvl 20! In GF4, I hit 20 somewhere around Monarch's swamps. 2. (rant begins) Rawal is not a shaper! No shaper would have a geneforge in his basement (so to speak)! It's the very thing that started the rebelion. I don't know why he built it (don't tell me) or why he more-or-less made me shaper (again, please don't tell me). But Every shaper or loyalist in GF4 was considering me a freak. To just have a councilor say "Hey buddy, here's a canister. Oh, and let me teach you some shaping cause it's convinient for my cause" is very un-shapish. I don't consider Rawal a shaper and I'm actually annoyed when people refer to him as shaper. In fact it annoys me more than GF4's reference to Monarch as shaper. I plan to rat out on him the first chance I get, that he has a geneforge in his basement, that he allows outsiders to be trained in Shaping (stuff that I had to jump through dozens of hoops in GF4 to get access to) and that he shapes people. (\rant) 3. In GF4, I wasn't a Trakovite. Yet, I couldn't in good concience allow the Drakons to spam mad, rogue killing machines. That's what we fought Monarch with the shapers for! A 100 or so, to turn the tide would be OK. So... I messed with the controls. (Actually I did all 4 endings I could but my "favorite" is the one you destroy the machines after the Unbound are made) But GF5 has the "Unbound unlimited" it seems. When I first heard it in the beginning, I thought "well, perhaps they mellowed them out". And then I found refugees that described how towns are wrecked appart by Unbound. And a rebel servile led me to believe the other part of the Rebel ending, the Drakons doing their thing shaper-y oppressing everyone else seems to be true as well! (again please don't tell to what extend that's true). 4. I plan to help the rebels win or better, make the Shapers lose. If possible I would go for something like Rawal told me Shaper Astoria goes for: A truce! That way Barred creations could slip to the rebel parts and the Drakons wouldn't dare go bat-crazy and oppress everyone else. I want both sides to co-exist, even if it's an uneasy peace. And if possible... I would do it with the Drakons severely weakened. I don't like them. Now: Please answer me with a "yes", "no" or "kinda" : Can a peace treaty between Shapers\Rebels be worked out to stop the bloodshed? Perhaps with the Drakons taken down a couple of notches? Is there a good ending this time, that's not one side wiped out their cities burned, their people enslaved\wiped out? (Don't tell me faction leader for that) Thank you for your time.
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